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  • Members: 714
  • Category: Poland
  • Founded: Sep 18, 2001
  • Language: English
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(See also http://www.Kresy-Siberia.org) The "Kresy-Siberia Group" brings into contact people from countries around the world with a special interest in the tragedy of over one million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, etc.) arrested or deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) in 1940-41 to special labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia. Some 115,000 of these were evacuated through Persia in 1942 as soldiers of Anders Army and their families - and eventually made their way to the West. The circumstances of their odyssey and the tragic history of the Polish citizens under Soviet occupation during the war was hushed up by the Allies during the war to protect the reputation of the Soviet Union, an important ally in the war against the Nazis.

Sixty years later the survivors have aged and many have died. With this list we hope to bring together surviving deportees and their descendants to remember, learn, discover and spread the word of their ordeal to the world and to future generations.

If this list group can play even a small role in that effort, it will have been an important achievement.

The above photo is of Basia Sgrunowska and Farynka Sgrunowska on the train from Lugova to Krasnovodzk (in the evacuation to Persia after their release from exile in the USSR), 23 March 1942 (from the private archives of Zofia Jordanowska - courtesy of VideoFact).

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Dear Edek, It's amazing the kinds of connections that can be found on the internet! Do you know where in the U.S. Genia Kowalczyk lives? I ask because my
Posted - Sat May 17, 2008 1:04 pm
Basia Glinski
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Dear Basia, I had a quick work with my Mother who remembers your Father!She says she remembers singing and your Father kicked her!! She is in contact with a
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stanislawowka - part 2
Hello Edek, I just spoke to my mother who was telling me that my father's father, who was a farmer in Stanislawowka and also the political selectman for the
Posted - Sat May 17, 2008 12:13 pm
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Hello Edek, Welcome to the group - the group is quite an amazing resource for all kinds of information! Both of my parents are from Poland as well (and both
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Dear Group, My name is EDEK REJ and I am 42 years old and live with my wife and 2 children in Cambridgeshire England.I was born in England to Polish parents.
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